I Otterboy
'Eorann writes with news of our two otters
Courting yesterday morning by the turnhole.
I can see them at their shiny romps
And imagine myself an otterboy
Kneeling where Ronan stands in cleric's vestment,
His hand outstretched to turn the bordered page
Of a massbook I hold high for his perusal,
My brow inclined to those big thong-tied feet
Protruding from the alb. Then shake myself
Like a waterdog that bounds out on the bank
To drop whatever he's retrieved and gambol
In pelt-sluice and unruly riverbreath.'
II He Remembers Lynchechaun
'That three-leggèd, round-bellied, cast-iron pot
Deep in the nettle clump, cobweb-mouthed
And black-frost cold
After its cauldron life of plump and boil,
Reminds me of the cool consideration
Behind the busy warmth
Of Lynchechaun; and its heaviness
When I'd lift it off the crane,
Its lightening once I'd tilt and drain it
I now see as premonitions
Of my seeing through him, the dizziness
As scales fell from my eyes.'
III The Pattern
'Full face, foursquare, eyelevel, carved in stone,
An ecclesiastic on the low-set lintel
Vested and unavoidable as the one
I approached head-on the full length of an aisle –
Unready as I was if much rehearsed
In the art of first confession.
What transpired next was meltwater,
A little trickle on the patterned tiles,
Truthfunk and walkaway, but then
In the nick of time, heelturn, comeback
And a clean breast made
Manfully if late. The pattern set.'
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